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The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.

Barbara Brown Taylor

I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

Sailboat Thinking Turns
God does some of God’s best work with people who are seriously lost.
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Lost People Seriously
I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

Order Self Thinking
Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.
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Everyday Reality Sky
Most of us like thinking we are God’s only children…At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.
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Baptism Children Thinking
When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.
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Jesus Mean Way
Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

Hard Recognizing Thinking Times
I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.
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Dark Light Needs
I decided I got to say whether I was Christian or not, and so I’ve relaxed enormously since then. I’m the one who gets to say that, and not someone else.
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Christian Decided Relax
Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
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Chance InterAction Offers
The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
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Self Tradition World
I’m leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
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Leaving Littles Successful
For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort of vet myself by the traditional formulae.
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Christian Long People
We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.
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Calling Darkness Names
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
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Behave Believe Politics
I don’t have time for a job that doesn’t leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.
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Jobs Praying Quiet

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